Underwater mapping gets a new dimension in Brevard

Carlile's multi-beam, sonar technology part of modern scanning

12:08 AM,
Nov. 24, 2013

Tim Carlile, a land surveyor and hydrographer living on Merritt Island, employs multi-beam and side-scan sonar technology to map the underwater world. He has written a book on his findings, but is not nearly done with his mapping.

Written by

Matt Badolato
| For FLORIDA TODAY

"Is that a tire?" I asked as I pointed to a little circle in the middle of the screen.

"You bet it is, watch this," said underwater mapper Tim Carlile, as he clicked his mouse to adjust a few settings. "Now look - sand ripples."

Sure enough, the computer in the boat's cockpit displayed a multicolored, 3-D image of the bottom contours inside Port Canaveral, the home base for Carlile's business, Land and Sea Surveying Concepts, Inc. ...